
Rikki Ducornet is the author of three collections of short fiction, two essay collections and nine novels including The Jade Cabinet, finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and The Fan Maker’s Inquisition, an LA Times Best Book of the Year.
She has received a Lannan Literary Award in Fiction, the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters and an Academy Award in Literature. Her novels are widely published abroad. Her second collection of essays, “The Deep Zoo,” will be published by Coffee House Press in December 2014.